From, Scientists Warn EPA Over Monsanto’s GMO Crop Failures, Dangers, A group of scientists is calling for major federal action in order to deal with the threat posed by Monsanto’s GMO crops, now petitioning the EPA to address the issue head on. The groups of 22 academic corn experts are drawing attention to the immense failure of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn, which is developing mutated and resistant insects as a result of its widespread usage. Corn is critical not ...
Unless you are self aware and appreciate the mental traps that befuddle us humans, you are unlikely to be persuaded by reason. Cognitive science has confirmed that confronting bigoted people actually strengthens their mindset. What to do? The only practical answer is to teach children from the time they are toddlers to be open minded and challenge absolutes they are commanded to believe, especially religious superstition and dogma. We must continually fight the natural inclination humans ...
It seems that every prescription drug advertised on TV has side-effects that harm you more than the disease you're trying to treat. An anti-depressant that can cause suicidal thoughts? Really? You were already depressed...
The matter of seeing God can be understood by the analogy of a lover who is so desperate to behold the beloved that his own self does not exist. Only the beloved is everywhere. There is a popular folk tale of Punjab here, in which the lover "Majnun" (the name went on to mean "gone case" or "crazy") he fell in love with "Laila" the beloved and such was his state that in his love for her he went from riches to rags. Lost all common sense, and would ...
Few men have acquired so scandalous a reputation as did Basil Zaharoff, alias Count Zacharoff, alias Prince Zacharias Basileus Zacharoff, known to his intimates as “Zedzed.” Born in Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, perhaps in 1849, Zaharoff was a brothel tout, bigamist and arsonist, a benefactor of great universities and an intimate of royalty who reached his peak of infamy as an international arms dealer—a “merchant of death,” as his many enemies preferred it. Many of Zaharoff’s ...
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